Hi,

I flashed my ASUS WL500g with this firmware http://wifi.ozo.com/airo/asus/firmware/ … ssian-RC2/. Now I want to know how to activate the wlan device. I have a prism card, but when booting the ASUS I don't see the wlan-light. Can anybody help me?

Sorry we are only supporting OpenWrt here.

olli_04, it look like OpenWrt port

openmg, check with nvram show (or similar command) for radio on/off, if I correctly understand hostap , software direct control wlan card, in that case check hostap configuration.

as far as I can remember this modifications
no drivers are loaded by default
you need to load modules yourself first
check your init scripts for this

at lease you will need
insmod hostap
insmod hostap_pci

Thank you for your answers. I tried to do : insmod hostap and insmod hostap_pci, but it didn't work. When I install wireless-utilities and try: wl ap 0, there is a message like this: wl adapter driver not found. Any idea what I can do to run my wlan-driver?

make shure that modules are in right place .. if not , try to locate them ..

They are all in lib/modules/2.4.30/. Some modules are in under-directories.

so , if you invoke them with full path , does it load or not ?

wl util is for broadcom drivers .. it does not support hostap as far as I know .
you should use iwconfig to configure your prism/hostap card

I invoked them with full path. When calling lsmod there are shown. But they don't work.

then what is output of your iwconfig command ?
can you check dmesg to be sure if you can see your wifi recognised
you need to set some params nad afterwards to do "ifconfig up" at least

Iwconfig shows only: no wireless extensions. When I check dmesg, I think there is no wlan. When I took an original OpenWRT-Image, I also found some hostap-ipk-packages in the net, but I couldn't install them.

Are there other images specially for an ASUS WL500g with a prism-miniPCI-card?

(Last edited by openmg on 29 Sep 2005, 14:05)